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EUGENIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood
Synonyms:
Eugenia; genus Eugenia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Eugenia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Eugenia"):
Eugenia corynantha; sour cherry (Australian tree with sour red fruit)
Eugenia dicrana; nakedwood (tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood)
Eugenia uniflora; pitanga; Surinam cherry (Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida)
Eugenia jambos; jambosa; rose-apple tree; rose apple (tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit)
Holonyms ("Eugenia" is a member of...):
family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)
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